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Award winning entrepreneur Fiona Simpson shares her memories of growing up in Seaburn with Wearside Echoes - the nostalgia-filled podcast about Sunderland's past.
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00:00The Sunderland Echo treasure hunt was a big highlight on the beach of mine and my sister's
00:13childhood. We used to love that every year. We never managed to find any treasure though.
00:17But we were always there. Were you in the chipper club? I was in the chipper club, yes.
00:24Actually I chatted to my sister last night. She was messaging me and I was saying I was
00:27doing this and she said, oh do you remember the chipper club? We won a few of the Sunderland
00:31Echo chipper club competitions as well. Did you get your letters in there on the page?
00:36I think we possibly did and we were always in the birthdays column as well.

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